The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

We were first introduced to the continents by flipping the pages of our geography textbooks, reading about their diverse countries, cultures, and traditions. As time went on, we swapped books for ...

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.